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High-Alert Medications in
Community/Ambulatory Settings
• High-alert medications are drugs that bear a heightened
risk of causing significant patient harm when they are
used in error.
• Give examples??ISMP list
• ISMP's List of Confused Drug Names contains look-alike
and sound-alike (LASA) name pairs, of medications that
have been published in the ISMP Medication Safety
Alert!® and the ISMP Medication Safety Alert!®
Community/Ambulatory Care Edition through February
28, 2019.
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Medication errors
• Definition:
“any preventable event that may cause or lead to
inappropriate medication use or patient harm while
the medication is in the control of the health care
professional, patient, or consumer.”
• Classifications and causes
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